To celebrate International Women's Day 2022, Tory Burch Westfarms in Connecticut has nominated 24 women within our community who have made a positive impact on our society. Lets join them to celebrate, support and uplift our local Connecticut women leaders. Co-sponsored by: Tory Burch 282 W Farms Mall, Farmington, Connecticut, United States, 06032

This talk will begin by providing a historical context to the evolution of the electric grid and the challenges that it has overcome during the past century. It will then highlight the present and future challenges - classified as ‘transformative’ - and the need to make the grid more resilient, reliable, with the ability to interconnect growing amount of distributed energy resources. Through case studies the impact of solar on the traditional electric grid will be discussed along with examples of projects that provide solutions to these challenges – such as Volt-Var optimization techniques and Utility Scale Batteries. Co-sponsored by: Eversource Energy Center Speaker(s): Umair Zia, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/306659